Clover Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDEFGHIJCKLGMNOPQPP PORSPPTUVPWXYZA2B2PC 2D2PE2PYPYPF2G2H2I2C ILIGGHJ2PK2L2JPPM2ZP N2O2P2PQ2PUPR2S2N2UT 2U2RU2V2LB2W2R2LPS2J X2GHPLPY2D2PUZ2PRLV2 PK2B2A3JB3CPC3H2D3PH PE3YPPRRPF3G3 F3Inscribed to the Memory of John Keats | A |
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Dear uplands Chester's favorable fields | B |
My large unjealous Loves many yet one | C |
A grave good morrow to your Graces all | D |
Fair tilth and fruitful seasons | E |
Lo how still | F |
The midmorn empties you of men save me | G |
Speak to your lover meadows None can hear | H |
I lie as lies yon placid Brandywine | I |
Holding the hills and heavens in my heart | J |
For contemplation | C |
'Tis a perfect hour | K |
From founts of dawn the fluent autumn day | L |
Has rippled as a brook right pleasantly | G |
Half way to noon but now with widening turn | M |
Makes pause in lucent meditation locked | N |
And rounds into a silver pool of morn | O |
Bottom'd with clover fields My heart just hears | P |
Eight lingering strokes of some far village bell | Q |
That speak the hour so inward voiced meseems | P |
Time's conscience has but whispered him eight hints | P |
Of revolution Reigns that mild surcease | P |
That stills the middle of each rural morn | O |
When nimble noises that with sunrise ran | R |
About the farms have sunk again to rest | S |
When Tom no more across the horse lot calls | P |
To sleepy Dick nor Dick husk voiced upbraids | P |
The sway back'd roan for stamping on his foot | T |
With sulphurous oath and kick in flank what time | U |
The cart chain clinks across the slanting shaft | V |
And kitchenward the rattling bucket plumps | P |
Souse down the well where quivering ducks quack loud | W |
And Susan Cook is singing | X |
Up the sky | Y |
The hesitating moon slow trembles on | Z |
Faint as a new washed soul but lately up | A2 |
From out a buried body Far about | B2 |
A hundred slopes in hundred fantasies | P |
Most ravishingly run so smooth of curve | C2 |
That I but seem to see the fluent plain | D2 |
Rise toward a rain of clover blooms as lakes | P |
Pout gentle mounds of plashment up to meet | E2 |
Big shower drops Now the little winds as bees | P |
Bowing the blooms come wandering where I lie | Y |
Mixt soul and body with the clover tufts | P |
Light on my spirit give from wing and thigh | Y |
Rich pollens and divine sweet irritants | P |
To every nerve and freshly make report | F2 |
Of inmost Nature's secret autumn thought | G2 |
Unto some soul of sense within my frame | H2 |
That owns each cognizance of the outlying five | I2 |
And sees hears tastes smells touches all in one | C |
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Tell me dear Clover since my soul is thine | I |
Since I am fain give study all the day | L |
To make thy ways my ways thy service mine | I |
To seek me out thy God my God to be | G |
And die from out myself to live in thee | G |
Now Cousin Clover tell me in mine ear | H |
Go'st thou to market with thy pink and green | J2 |
Of what avail this color and this grace | P |
Wert thou but squat of stem and brindle brown | K2 |
Still careless herds would feed A poet thou | L2 |
What worth what worth the whole of all thine art | J |
Three Leaves instruct me I am sick of price | P |
Framed in the arching of two clover stems | P |
Where through I gaze from off my hill afar | M2 |
The spacious fields from me to Heaven take on | Z |
Tremors of change and new significance | P |
To th' eye as to the ear a simple tale | N2 |
Begins to hint a parable's sense beneath | O2 |
The prospect widens cuts all bounds of blue | P2 |
Where horizontal limits bend and spreads | P |
Into a curious hill'd and curious valley'd Vast | Q2 |
Endless before behind around which seems | P |
Th' incalculable Up and Down of Time | U |
Made plain before mine eyes The clover stems | P |
Still cover all the space but now they bear | R2 |
For clover blooms fair stately heads of men | S2 |
With poets' faces heartsome dear and pale | N2 |
Sweet visages of all the souls of time | U |
Whose loving service to the world has been | T2 |
In the artist's way expressed and bodied Oh | U2 |
In arms' reach here be Dante Keats Chopin | R |
Raphael Lucretius Omar Angelo | U2 |
Beethoven Chaucer Schubert Shakespeare Bach | V2 |
And Buddha sweetest masters Let me lay | L |
These arms this once this humble once about | B2 |
Your reverend necks the most containing clasp | W2 |
For all in all this world e'er saw and there | R2 |
Yet further on bright throngs unnamable | L |
Of workers worshipful nobilities | P |
In the Court of Gentle Service silent men | S2 |
Dwellers in woods brooders on helpful art | J |
And all the press of them the fair the large | X2 |
That wrought with beauty | G |
Lo what bulk is here | H |
Now comes the Course of things shaped like an Ox | P |
Slow browsing o'er my hillside ponderously | L |
The huge brawned tame and workful Course of things | P |
That hath his grass if earth be round or flat | Y2 |
And hath his grass if empires plunge in pain | D2 |
Or faiths flash out This cool unasking Ox | P |
Comes browsing o'er my hills and vales of Time | U |
And thrusts me out his tongue and curls it sharp | Z2 |
And sicklewise about my poets' heads | P |
And twists them in all Dante Keats Chopin | R |
Raphael Lucretius Omar Angelo | L |
Beethoven Chaucer Schubert Shakespeare Bach | V2 |
And Buddha in one sheaf and champs and chews | P |
With slantly churning jaws and swallows down | K2 |
Then slowly plants a mighty forefoot out | B2 |
And makes advance to futureward one inch | A3 |
So they have played their part | J |
And to this end | B3 |
This God This troublous breeding Earth This Sun | C |
Of hot quick pains To this no end that ends | P |
These Masters wrought and wept and sweated blood | C3 |
And burned and loved and ached with public shame | H2 |
And found no friends to breathe their loves to save | D3 |
Woods and wet pillows This was all This Ox | P |
Nay quoth a sum of voices in mine ear | H |
God's clover we and feed His Course of things | P |
The pasture is God's pasture systems strange | E3 |
Of food and fiberment He hath whereby | Y |
The general brawn is built for plans of His | P |
To quality precise Kinsman learn this | P |
The artist's market is the heart of man | R |
The artist's price some little good of man | R |
Tease not thy vision with vain search for ends | P |
The End of Means is art that works by love | F3 |
The End of Ends in God's Beginning's lost | G3 |
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West Chester Pa Summer of | F3 |
Sidney Lanier
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